INSTABILITY

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• Genesis 49:3

  “Reuben, you are my firstborn, my might, and the beginning of my strength; excelling in dignity, and excelling in power.

• Genesis 49:4

  Boiling over like water, you shall not excel; because you went up to your father’s bed, then defiled it. He went up to my couch.

• Exodus 8:15

  But when Pharaoh saw that there was a respite, he hardened his heart, and didn’t listen to them, as Yahweh had spoken.

• Exodus 8:32

  Pharaoh hardened his heart this time also, and he didn’t let the people go.

• Exodus 9:34

  When Pharaoh saw that the rain and the hail and the thunders had ceased, he sinned yet more, and hardened his heart, he and his servants.

• Exodus 10:8

  Moses and Aaron were brought again to Pharaoh, and he said to them, “Go, serve Yahweh your God; but who are those who will go?”

• Exodus 10:9

  Moses said, “We will go with our young and with our old; with our sons and with our daughters, with our flocks and with our herds will we go; for we must hold a feast to Yahweh.”

• Exodus 10:10

  He said to them, “Yahweh be with you if I will let you go with your little ones! See, evil is clearly before your faces.

• Exodus 10:11

  Not so! Go now you who are men, and serve Yahweh; for that is what you desire!” They were driven out from Pharaoh’s presence.

• Exodus 10:16

  Then Pharaoh called for Moses and Aaron in haste, and he said, “I have sinned against Yahweh your God, and against you.

• Exodus 10:17

  Now therefore please forgive my sin again, and pray to Yahweh your God, that he may also take away from me this death.”

• Exodus 10:18

  He went out from Pharaoh, and prayed to Yahweh.

• Exodus 10:19

  Yahweh turned an exceeding strong west wind, which took up the locusts, and drove them into the Red Sea. There remained not one locust in all the borders of Egypt.

• Exodus 10:20

  But Yahweh hardened Pharaoh’s heart, and he didn’t let the children of Israel go.

• Exodus 14:5

  The king of Egypt was told that the people had fled; and the heart of Pharaoh and of his servants was changed towards the people, and they said, “What is this we have done, that we have let Israel go from serving us?”

• Exodus 19:8

  All the people answered together, and said, “All that Yahweh has spoken we will do.” Moses reported the words of the people to Yahweh.

• Exodus 24:3

  Moses came and told the people all Yahweh’s words, and all the ordinances; and all the people answered with one voice, and said, “All the words which Yahweh has spoken will we do.”

• Exodus 24:7

  He took the book of the covenant and read it in the hearing of the people, and they said, “All that Yahweh has spoken will we do, and be obedient.”

• Exodus 32:8

  They have turned aside quickly out of the way which I commanded them. They have made themselves a molten calf, and have worshiped it, and have sacrificed to it, and said, ‘These are your gods, Israel, which brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’”

• Exodus 32:9

  Yahweh said to Moses, “I have seen these people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people.

• Exodus 32:10

  Now therefore leave me alone, that my wrath may burn hot against them, and that I may consume them; and I will make of you a great nation.”

• Judges 2:17

  Yet they didn’t listen to their judges; for they prostituted themselves to other gods, and bowed themselves down to them. They turned aside quickly out of the way in which their fathers walked, obeying Yahweh’s commandments. They didn’t do so.

• 1 Samuel 18:19

  But at the time when Merab, Saul’s daughter, should have been given to David, she was given to Adriel the Meholathite as wife.

• 2 Samuel 11:2

  At evening, David arose from his bed and walked on the roof of the king’s house. From the roof, he saw a woman bathing, and the woman was very beautiful to look at.

• 2 Samuel 11:3

  David sent and inquired after the woman. One said, “Isn’t this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, Uriah the Hittite’s wife?”

• 2 Samuel 11:4

  David sent messengers, and took her; and she came in to him, and he lay with her (for she was purified from her uncleanness); and she returned to her house.

• 2 Samuel 11:5

  The woman conceived; and she sent and told David, and said, “I am with child.”

• 2 Samuel 11:6

  David sent to Joab, “Send me Uriah the Hittite.” Joab sent Uriah to David.

• 2 Samuel 11:7

  When Uriah had come to him, David asked him how Joab did, and how the people fared, and how the war prospered.

• 2 Samuel 11:8

  David said to Uriah, “Go down to your house and wash your feet.” Uriah departed out of the king’s house, and a gift from the king was sent after him.

• 2 Samuel 11:9

  But Uriah slept at the door of the king’s house with all the servants of his lord, and didn’t go down to his house.

• 1 Kings 11:1

  Now king Solomon loved many foreign women, together with the daughter of Pharaoh, women of the Moabites, Ammonites, Edomites, Sidonians, and Hittites;

• 1 Kings 11:2

  of the nations concerning which Yahweh said to the children of Israel, “You shall not go among them, neither shall they come among you; for surely they will turn away your heart after their gods.” Solomon joined to these in love.

• 1 Kings 11:3

  He had seven hundred wives, princesses, and three hundred concubines; and his wives turned away his heart.

• 1 Kings 11:4

  When Solomon was old, his wives turned away his heart after other gods; and his heart was not perfect with Yahweh his God, as the heart of David his father was.

• 1 Kings 11:5

  For Solomon went after Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, and after Milcom the abomination of the Ammonites.

• 1 Kings 11:6

  Solomon did that which was evil in Yahweh’s sight, and didn’t go fully after Yahweh, as David his father did.

• 1 Kings 11:7

  Then Solomon built a high place for Chemosh the abomination of Moab, on the mountain that is before Jerusalem, and for Molech the abomination of the children of Ammon.

• 1 Kings 11:8

  So he did for all his foreign wives, who burned incense and sacrificed to their gods.

• 1 Kings 18:21

  Elijah came near to all the people, and said, “How long will you waver between the two sides? If Yahweh is God, follow him; but if Baal, then follow him.” The people didn’t say a word.

• Psalms 106:12

  Then they believed his words. They sang his praise.

• Psalms 106:13

  They soon forgot his works. They didn’t wait for his counsel,

• Proverbs 24:21

  My son, fear Yahweh and the king. Don’t join those who are rebellious:

• Proverbs 24:22

  for their calamity will rise suddenly; the destruction from them both — who knows?

• Proverbs 27:8

  As a bird that wanders from her nest, so is a man who wanders from his home.

• Jeremiah 2:36

  Why do you go about so much to change your ways? You will be ashamed of Egypt also, as you were ashamed of Assyria.

• Hosea 6:4

  “Ephraim, what shall I do to you? Judah, what shall I do to you? For your love is like a morning cloud, and like the dew that disappears early.

• Hosea 6:5

  Therefore I have cut them to pieces with the prophets; I killed them with the words of my mouth. Your judgments are like a flash of lightning.

• Matthew 6:24

  “No one can serve two masters, for either he will hate the one and love the other; or else he will be devoted to one and despise the other. You can’t serve both God and Mammon.

• Matthew 8:19

  A scribe came, and said to him, “Teacher, I will follow you wherever you go.”

• Matthew 8:20

  Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to lay his head.”

• Matthew 12:25

  Knowing their thoughts, Jesus said to them, “Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation, and every city or house divided against itself will not stand.

• Matthew 13:20

  What was sown on the rocky places, this is he who hears the word, and immediately with joy receives it;

• Matthew 13:21

  yet he has no root in himself, but endures for a while. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately he stumbles.

• Mark 4:14

  The farmer sows the word.

• Mark 4:15

  The ones by the road are the ones where the word is sown; and when they have heard, immediately Satan comes, and takes away the word which has been sown in them.

• Mark 4:16

  These in the same way are those who are sown on the rocky places, who, when they have heard the word, immediately receive it with joy.

• Mark 4:17

  They have no root in themselves, but are short-lived. When oppression or persecution arises because of the word, immediately they stumble.

• Mark 4:18

  Others are those who are sown among the thorns. These are those who have heard the word,

• Mark 4:19

  and the cares of this age, and the deceitfulness of riches, and the lusts of other things entering in choke the word, and it becomes unfruitful.

• Luke 8:13

  Those on the rock are they who, when they hear, receive the word with joy; but these have no root, who believe for a while, then fall away in time of temptation.

• Luke 8:14

  That which fell among the thorns, these are those who have heard, and as they go on their way they are choked with cares, riches, and pleasures of life, and bring no fruit to maturity.

• Luke 9:57

  As they went on the way, a certain man said to him, “I want to follow you wherever you go, Lord.”

• Luke 9:58

  Jesus said to him, “The foxes have holes, and the birds of the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has no place to lay his head.”

• Luke 9:59

  He said to another, “Follow me!” But he said, “Lord, allow me first to go and bury my father.”

• Luke 9:60

  But Jesus said to him, “Leave the dead to bury their own dead, but you go and announce God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 9:61

  Another also said, “I want to follow you, Lord, but first allow me to say good-bye to those who are at my house.”

• Luke 9:62

  But Jesus said to him, “No one, having put his hand to the plow, and looking back, is fit for God’s Kingdom.”

• Luke 17:32

  Remember Lot’s wife!

• John 5:35

  He was the burning and shining lamp, and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.

• John 6:66

  At this, many of his disciples went back, and walked no more with him.

• Acts 15:38

  But Paul didn’t think that it was a good idea to take with them someone who had withdrawn from them in Pamphylia, and didn’t go with them to do the work.

• Galatians 1:6

  I marvel that you are so quickly deserting him who called you in the grace of Christ to a different “good news”;

• Galatians 4:9

  But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

• Galatians 4:10

  You observe days, months, seasons, and years.

• Galatians 4:11

  I am afraid for you, that I might have wasted my labor for you.

• Ephesians 4:14

  that we may no longer be children, tossed back and forth and carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the trickery of men, in craftiness, after the wiles of error;

• Hebrews 13:9

  Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

• James 1:6

  But let him ask in faith, without any doubting, for he who doubts is like a wave of the sea, driven by the wind and tossed.

• James 1:7

  For let that man not think that he will receive anything from the Lord.

• James 1:8

  He is a double-minded man, unstable in all his ways.

• James 4:8

  Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

• 2 Peter 2:14

  having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin; enticing unsettled souls; having a heart trained in greed; children of cursing;

• Revelation 2:4

  But I have this against you, that you left your first love.

• Revelation 3:2

  Wake up, and keep the things that remain, which you were about to throw away, for I have found no works of yours perfected before my God.

• Revelation 3:15

  “I know your works, that you are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were cold or hot.

• Revelation 3:16

  So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will vomit you out of my mouth.